That's an odd issue, I'd certainly encourage leveraging syslog's built-in filtering mechanisms, as StarBits currently has ALL console logs dating back 269 days, and total disk space consumed is 4GB:
~$ du -hsc /var/log/starmade.* |tail -n 1
4.0G total
~$ ls -l /var/log/starmade.* |wc -l
269...